Since You Can't Afford to See It Live, Watch the Amazing Hamilton Performance from the Grammys

Are you a person with an Internet connection? Do you from time to time enjoy the general art form of music? Well, then, there's a good chance you've heard people lose their minds over the brilliance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterpiece Hamilton, the hip-hop adaptation of Ron Chernow's biography of the same name. Miranda's Broadway musical casts people of color as the founding fathers and mothers of America and tells their story through hip-hop. It is truly and unquestionably brilliant. I've seen it twice. I would happily pay a month's rent to see it a third time, if my landlord would just be cool about it. It's that good. In fact, it's the rare piece of pop culture that enjoys a 100 percent approval rating. For as hyped as it is and as expensive tickets are, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single person who feels disappointed by the show.

So, on Monday night, in the midst of a, to that point, yawn-tacular Grammy Awards (Kendrick Lamar's killer performance was yet to come), the men and women of Hamilton performed their opening number live from the Richard Rodgers Theatre stage in New York. They blew the doors off the place.

And then they won a Grammy for their cast recording and Lin-Manuel rapped his acceptance speech, which was incredible in its own right. (Though his rapped Tony acceptance speech for In The Heights will always be my true love, acceptance speech-wise.)

If you don't have an absurd amount of money to go see the show, then I would recommend watching their Grammy performance video over and over again, listening to the fantastic (Grammy winning!) cast album on repeat, and kidnapping a wealthy person and ransom them for enough money to buy a single ticket to the best piece of musical theater to have played Broadway in many, many years.